Brock identified agape love with the
wrong direction of classical (patriarchal) theism in championing «disinterested» love, «dispassionate» love that includes no dynamic interrelationship between Lover and beloved and leaves God utterly unaffected by the creaturely response to God's love.21 Erotic love, by
contrast, «connotes intimacy through the subjective engagement of the whole self in a relationship.»